Christian Freed From Prison In Afganistan

by INFIDEL on February 28, 2011

Anjem Choudary tells the world that all democracies and the American republic are an affront to the holiness of Allah. As if respect for humanity or rather those who don’t adhere to Islam is a sin. I am baffled by the those in the west who believe that it can do a better job including freedom and sharia law than can Islamic controlled governments. Here’s another story of a man imprisoned for being a Christian. This one at least ends well. Most Christians die.

An Afghan man who converted to Christianity was freed from prison, where he had been held for nine months, and may have been secretly smuggled out of the country this week. Sayed Mussa, 46, ran the risk of a death sentence for apostasy. His release came after months of discreet diplomatic efforts between the Afghan government and western representatives in Kabul.

Sayed Mussa, married and father of six children, worked for the International Committee of the Red Cross before his arrest. He was released on February 21 from Kabul Detention Centre after the judges had found that there was insufficient material to pursue the charges. This according to Gen. Qayoum Khan, prison director.

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Sayed Mussa was arrested in May 2010 after a local television station showed some Westerners baptizing Afghans, and other Afghans who were praying in a secret Christiangathering. Local sources, on condition of anonymity, say the Afghan government has been under massive pressure for his release, and was uncertain, because it feared the reaction of radical Muslims. Some believe Mussa could have reneged on his conversion, before being released. Mussa was one of at least two Afghans in prison on charges of apostasy. Another, Shoaib Assadullah Musawi is in prison since November 2010 in the city of Mazar-i-Sharif, accused of having given a Gospel to a friend. The Afghan constitution guarantees freedom to practice religion, but ambiguously leaves the option to courts of referring to the Shari’a on many issues, including conversion.